When Celeste finds herself all but stranded in the Great Sandy desert, Australia, she can't believe her bad luck. Her parents are distracted, the encampment is small and boring and everyday feels like all the others...that is until a strange caravan arrives and Celeste learns her true fate is written in the stars. But can she read it?

When 17 year old Hazel, her mother and her six sisters leave the city behind for a life in the country, Hazel feels like she might die. How long would it take for her friends to forget she existed? How could she cope, attending a school with just 200 students? What would she even do out there? Little does she suspect the magic that awaits her in the forest that backs on to their new cabin home, the ways it would bring her and her sisters together and the fate that awaits her, reflected in golden eyes peering at her from a mysterious shadow...